Point Cloud Processing and Analysis with PDAL

Author:Howard Butler Author:Pete Gadomski Author:Dr. Craig Glennie Contact:howard@hobu.co Date:05/17/2018

• Introduction
  • Materials
    • Slides
    • Workshop Materials
    • USB Example Data Drive
• Introduction to LiDAR
  • Types of LiDAR
  • Modes of LiDAR Collection
  • Georeferencing
    • Integrating LiDAR and GNSS/IMU data
  • Discrete-Return vs. Full-Waveform
• Software Installation
  • OSGeo4W
    • What is OSGeo4W?
    • How will we use OSGeo4W?
    • Installing OSGeo4W
  • QGIS
    • What is QGIS?
    • How will we use QGIS?
    • Installing QGIS
    • Conclusion
• Exercises
  • Basic Information
    • Printing the first point
    • Printing file metadata
    • Searching near a point
  • Translation
    • Compression
    • Reprojection
    • Greyhound
  • Analysis
    • Finding the boundary
    • Clipping data with polygons
    • Colorizing points with imagery
    • Removing noise
    • Visualizing acquisition density
    • Thinning
    • Identifying ground
    • Generating a DTM
    • Rasterizing Attributes
  • Python
    • Plotting a histogram
  • Georeferencing
    • Georeferencing
• Final Project
• Notes
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